Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] for [art] more " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This butter should keep for no more than one month . |
| 2 | We can not now implement the whole of that programme and must look for a more concessive approach , capable of accommodating the competing strengths of individualism . |
| 3 | Few performers would be entirely happy touring the country as , say , Oswald Mosley , although it might make for a more interesting evening dramatically . |
| 4 | The soft conventionalist could search for a more abstract consensus yet . |
| 5 | Gouled , as the sole candidate , was re-elected by direct universal suffrage in June 1981 and April 1987 ; under the terms of the 1981 Constitution the President may serve for no more than two terms . |
| 6 | The Republic of Djibouti ( formerly the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas ) became independent in June 1977 ; under the terms of the 1981 Constitution the President may serve for no more than two six-year terms . |
| 7 | But Richard Ingham , managing director of Beacham Peplow Noakes Advertising says he would opt for a more down-to-earth approach . |
| 8 | By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes . |
| 9 | Ideal , say , for a university library building up stock — particularly if secondhand wants lists were being compiled — though someone revising the history stock at a small public library service point would look for a more selective tool . |
| 10 | The marriage of James 's son James IV to Margaret Tudor , from which the Stewart claim to the English throne derived , came about more because of pressure from Henry VII than from any Scottish enthusiasm ; and the Treaty of Perpetual Peace which accompanied it would last for no more than eleven years , collapsing because James could not sustain his obligations to both France and England when Henry VIII joined the pope 's grotesquely named Holy League against France . |
| 11 | A characteristically political perspective would argue for a more articulated view of the complexity of centre-periphery relationships than either pluralism or Marxism can provide but would also warn against imposition of a single political model such as corporatism . |
| 12 | I promise it will make for a more positive atmosphere around you . |
| 13 | Some of the procedures of discourse analysis will make for a more profound examination of this process . |
| 14 | ‘ If everything continues to go well , she will stay for no more than seven days . ’ |
| 15 | Secondly , institutional changes have also been introduced which hopefully will provide for a more cooperative relationship between the Council of Ministers and the EP . |
| 16 | The skills demanded in future will call for a more broadly based approach by management built upon specialist technical skills and GROVE PROJECTS will provide an enhanced working environment in which these skills can flourish . |
| 17 | It seems most likely that the Task Group will go for a more strongly typed Cobol , similar in this respect to C++ . |
| 18 | The aim is that entertainment on pay-TV will pay for the more innovative plans , including two way transactions down the cables , that lie at the heart of the cabling idea . |
| 19 | Unless the clergy want my complete damnation they can ask for no more . |
| 20 | But researchers have re-assessed data from both urban and rural sites around the world and concluded that the heat island effect can account for no more than 10 per cent of the measured temperature rise . |